Robotics scientists at TED unleash co-ordinated drones that mimic bird behavior to play the James Bond theme song
At TED2012, the University of Pennsylvania's deputy dean for education Vijay Kuma showed off his latest accomplishment in robotics: a co-ordinated rendition of the James Bond theme song.
Kumar and other Grasp (General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns) Lab members Daniel Melligner and Alex Kushleyev have been working to help scientists and engineers create smarter, faster, and more flexible robots by mimicking the swarming behaviors of birds, fish and insects, according to the University of Pennsylvania.
The video has since gone viral and is getting thousands of hits an hour. We, for one, welcome our new quadrotor overlords.